Top Atheist Quotes Collection
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.Collection: Atheist
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.Collection: Atheist
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.Collection: Atheist
I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.Collection: Atheist
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?Collection: Atheist
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.Collection: Atheist
Man created God in his own image.Collection: Atheist
She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.Collection: Atheist
You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."Collection: Atheist
The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.Collection: Atheist
Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.Collection: Atheist
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.Collection: Atheist
Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.Collection: Atheist
I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.Collection: Atheist
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.Collection: Atheist
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.Collection: Atheist
I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.Collection: Atheist
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.Collection: Atheist
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.Collection: Atheist
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.Collection: Atheist
The market for nonsense is infinite.Collection: Atheist
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.Collection: Atheist
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.Collection: Atheist
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.Collection: Atheist
I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.Collection: Atheist
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.Collection: Atheist
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.Collection: Atheist
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.Collection: Atheist
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.Collection: Atheist
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.Collection: Atheist
The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.Collection: Atheist
He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.Collection: Atheist
We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.Collection: Atheist
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.Collection: Atheist
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.Collection: Atheist
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.Collection: Atheist
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)Collection: Atheist
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.Collection: Atheist
I just became a stronger agnostic, and then I started to realize that everyone who was saying they were agnostic really hadn't thought about it that much. Still, I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist -- being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.Collection: Atheist
It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers because they put down religion so much. Now I am an atheist, but I don't like to describe myself with that term. I prefer secular humanist. But I do see first hand how beneficial religion is, for example if you are a refugee getting in a boat to take you across the Mediterranean, a belief in God is an advantage. I completely understand that comfort.Collection: Atheist
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.Collection: Atheist
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.Collection: Atheist
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.Collection: Atheist
It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an AtheistCollection: Atheist
If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.Collection: Atheist
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.Collection: Atheist
As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.Collection: Atheist
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.Collection: Atheist
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.Collection: Atheist
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.Collection: Atheist